The Michigan Republican Party voted to break a delegate tie Wednesday night, awarding 16 delegates to Mitt Romney and 14 to Rick Santorum.

The decision, which broke a 15-15 tie that would have resulted under the pre-primary interpretation of the rules, caused disbelief at Rick Santorums campaign. A spokesman rejected the decision.

Even Romney supporters in the Michigan GOP said the decision was unfair to Santorum.

I have this crazy idea that you follow the rules, said former Attorney General Mike Cox said after a 4-2 vote by a Michigan GOP credentialing committee, according to the AP. Id love to give the at-large delegates to Mitt Romney, but our rules provide for strict apportionment.

Cox was one of two "no" votes on the committee which met via telephone, along with attorney Eric Doster The "yes" votes included GOP National Committeeman Saul Anuzis, a Romney supporter, and MRP Chair Bobby Schostak.

That would put the delegate split at 16 for Romney and 14 for Rick Santorum, after each candidate won 14 delegates apiece in those divided by Michigan's 14 congressional districts.

As MIRS first reported on Wednesday, the MRP was delaying a final decision on the delegate split until after consulting with attorneys.

Cox said that according to the MRP rules, Santorum and Romney should each get one of Michigan's two at-large delegates based on their take of the popular vote.

"I supported Mitt, but the vote was clearly wrong," Cox said of the Credentials Committee. "It's kind of like Third World voting. We published rules and then we voted to change the rules."

Quite a track record already this election starting in Iowa which was declared for Romney but won by Santorum. Virginia required extreme scrutiny of all but Romney and Paul. Maine Declared for Romney despite some screwy crap going on in some of the precincts. Florida appears to be a result of shifting rules. And finally Michigan where they admit to changing the rules after the fact.

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posted on 03/01/2012 6:30:10 PM PST
by cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)

Romney actually does a pretty good job of hiding his true nature when he isn’t in your state. I really didn’t see the utter filth until it came to Michigan. Last time around I just didn’t care because it was between Romney and McCain.

In the case of Santorum calling for democrats to cross over and vote for him, he just beat Romney at his own game. The GOP leadership in Michigan kept the primary open while we were screaming to close it. Santorum made Robocalls to and invited democrats to vote for him and Romney had people going door to do doing the exact same thing.

The most disgusting thing was when our governor Rick Snyder complained of the dirty tricks of Santorum. Ask any Michigan Freeper how Snyder won and they’ll tell you that it was crossover votes. To make matters worse, despite the “dirty tricks” Snyder still says he’ll work to keep the primaries open.

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posted on 03/01/2012 7:16:31 PM PST
by cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)

Just wait until you hear the outrage at FR when the realization sets in that the Establishment Romneyites in TN, IN, IL, et al won’t award Santorum delegates because they are not required to do so (due to his ballot and delegate fielding issues).

Some folks here are going to go ballistic.

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posted on 03/01/2012 7:34:49 PM PST
by TitansAFC
(Rick Santorum is the suicide bomber of the 2012 Primary; he's going to take us all out with him.)

Romney's campaign along with the liberal republican establishment tried to steal the Iowa caucus' by stuffing the ballot boxes. They got caught and Santorum won Iowa. Michigan is a much bigger state and stuffing the ballot boxes wasn't enough so now they're simply changing the rules (after the fact) in a continuing attempt to shove their goon down our throats.

Shame on them.

I'm not a Santorum supporter by any stretch of the imagination but I am all for proving the liberal shill Romney defeatable.

They lost half for going early. RNC Chair Preibus (probably misspelled) said that they “shouldn’t be punished twice” when interviewed about dividing the delegates. Something tells me had another candidate won FL, The April 1st rule would be enforced.

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posted on 03/02/2012 9:20:13 AM PST
by pulaskibush
(Thou shalt tax/steal from Peter to help Paul/Pablo is not in the Bible!)

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